NIJKERK (ANP) - Bij het Israëlcentrum in het Gelderse Nijkerk heeft vrijdagavond laat een explosie plaatsgevonden. Het centrum van de organisatie Christenen voor Israël beschrijft het pand op zijn website als 'een ontmoetingsplek voor christenen met hart voor Israël'.

Volgens de politie is er niemand gewond geraakt bij de explosie in de Henri Nouwenstraat. Ook de materiële schade valt volgens een woordvoerder mee. De politie doet onderzoek naar de ontploffing en vraagt mensen die er mogelijk meer over weten zich te melden. Er zijn nog geen verdachten aangehouden.

LONDEN (ANP) - In Groot-Brittannië zijn drie mannen aangeklaagd voor brandstichting na een incident in Londen bijna twee weken geleden. Vier ambulances van de Joodse vrijwilligersorganisatie Hatzola gingen toen in de buitenwijk Golders Green in vlammen op. De 17-, 19- en 20-jarigen werden eerder deze week gearresteerd in het oosten van de stad.

De Metropolitan Police van de Britse hoofdstad meldt vrijdagavond in een verklaring dat het drietal op dit moment niet verdacht wordt van terrorisme. Gezien de omstandigheden wordt het onderzoek wel geleid door de antiterreureenheid van de politie.

De politie zei aanvankelijk dat het incident werd onderzocht als "antisemitisch haatmisdrijf", maar het hoofd van de antiterrorismebrigade van de Londense politie benadrukte vervolgens dat het nog te vroeg is om te spreken van terrorisme.

De drie moeten zaterdag voor de rechter verschijnen.

TEHERAN (ANP) - De Iraanse atoomenergieorganisatie (AEOI) vindt dat het VN-orgaan IAEA, het Internationaal Atoomenergieagentschap, zich partijdig opstelt door geen kritiek te hebben op luchtaanvallen op nucleaire installaties in Iran. "Het zwijgen van het IAEA over luchtaanvallen op complexen die vreedzame doeleinden dienen, is niet slechts nalatigheid, maar wijst duidelijk op medeplichtigheid met de daders."

Het IAEA maakt zich volgens Iran schuldig aan "een historische nalatigheid" en dat ondermijnt de geloofwaardigheid van de internationale organisatie. Iran heeft IAEA-chef Rafael Grossi hierover boze brieven geschreven. Teheran ziet Grossi en diens organisatie als een marionet van Israël en westerse mogendheden, met name de VS, Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk.

Het IAEA kwam vorig jaar in juni met een resolutie waarin stond dat Iran in gebreke blijft en kort erna begon Israël met aanvallen op Iran. Volgens Teheran werd de verklaring van het IAEA als excuus gebruikt.

SOHMOR (ANP/AFP) - Israël heeft met aanvallen met gevechtsvliegtuigen twee vlak bij elkaar gelegen bruggen over de rivier de Litani in het oosten van Libanon verwoest. Israël zegt dat de bruggen gebruikt worden voor het verplaatsen van wapens van de beweging Hezbollah.

De bruggen aan de rand van de plaats Sohmor lagen circa 40 kilometer ten zuidoosten van de hoofdstad Beiroet. Israël probeert Hezbollah uit te schakelen en daarvoor het zuiden van Libanon beneden de Litani te bezetten. Een aantal Israëlische politici dringt erop aan dat de rivier de nieuwe noordgrens van Israël wordt.

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its "beta" label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it's no longer technically in beta.

"As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is finalized or perfectly working," the organizations says. "Exiting beta doesn't mean we'll stop continuing to improve AO3 -- our volunteer coders and community contributors will still be working to add to and improve AO3 every day."

Some of the features it's introduced over the years include a tag system, offline fanworks downloads, privacy settings that let creators restrict access to their work, and new modes for multi-chapter works. As it stands, the site says it has more than 10 million registered users and 17 million fanworks.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 -- titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair -- out of committee and into the state senate and house for a vote. The bill modifies Colorado's Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment act, which was passed in 2024 and went into effect in January 2026. While the protections secured by that act are wide, the new SB26-090 bill aims to "exempt information technology equipment that is intended for use in critical infrastructure from Colorado's consumer right to repair laws."

The bill is supported by tech manufacturers like Cisco and IBM, according to lobbying disclosures. These are companies that have vested interests in manufacturing things like routers, server equipment, and computers and stand to profit if they can control who fixes their products and the tools, components, and software used to make those upgrades and repairs. They also cite cybersecurity concerns, saying that giving people access to the tools and systems they would need to repair a device could also enable bad actors to use those methods for nefarious means. (This is a common argument manufacturers make when opposing right-to-repair laws.)

[...] During the hearing, more than a dozen repair advocates spoke from organizations like Pirg, the Repair Association, and iFixit opposing the bill. YouTuber and repair advocate Louis Rossmann was there. The main problem, repair advocates say, is that the bill deliberately uses vague language to make the case for controlling who can fix their products. [...] The Colorado Labor and Technology committee advanced the bill, but it still needs to go through votes on the Colorado Senate and House floors before going into effect. Those votes may take place as early as next week. Regardless of how the bill goes in the state, it's likely that manufacturers will continue their push to alter or undo repair legislation in other states across the country. "The 'information technology' and 'critical infrastructure' thing is as cynical as you can possibly be about it," says Nathan Proctor, the leader of Pirg's US right-to-repair campaign. "It sounds scary to lawmakers, but it just means the internet."

The current wording of the bill "leaves it up to the manufacturers to determine which items they will need to provide repair tools and parts to owners and independent repairers and which ones they don't," says Danny Katz, executive director CoPIRG, the Colorado branch of the consumer advocate group Pirg. "This is a bad policy and would be a big step back for Coloradans' repair rights."

iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing: "There's a general principle in cybersecurity that obscurity is not security," iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing. "The money that's behind the scenes, that's what's driving the bill."

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The Wall Street Journal shares the "wild behind-the-scenes story" of how the world's largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. "At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million compromised home Android devices and digital photo frames -- enough DDoS firepower to disrupt internet traffic across the U.S. and beyond." From the report: Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled. A cat meme helped him crack the case. A growing network of hacked devices was launching the biggest cyberattacks ever seen on the internet. It had become the most powerful cyberweapon ever assembled, large enough to knock a state or even a small country offline. Investigators didn't know exactly who had built it -- or how. Brundage had been following the attacks, too -- and, in between classes, was conducting his own investigation. In September, the college senior started messaging online with an anonymous user who seemed to have insider knowledge.

As they chatted on Discord, a platform favored by videogamers, Brundage was eager to get more information, but he didn't want to come off as too serious and shut down the conversation. So every now and then he'd send a funny GIF to lighten the mood. Brundage was fluent in the memes, jokes and technical jargon popular with young gamers and hackers who are extremely online. "It was a bit of just asking over and over again and then like being a bit unserious," said Brundage. At one point, he asked for some technical details. He followed up with the cat meme: a six-second clip that showed a hand adjusting a necktie on a fluffy gray cat. Brundage didn't expect it to work, but he got the information. "It took me by surprise," he said.

Eventually the leaker hinted there was a new vulnerability on the internet. Brundage, who is 22, would learn it threatened tens of millions of consumers and as much as a quarter of the world's corporations. As he unraveled the mystery, he impressed veteran researchers with his findings -- including federal law enforcement, which took action against the network two weeks ago. Chad Seaman, a researcher at Akamai, joked at one point that the internet could go down if Brundage spent too much time on his exams.

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Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

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Here’s a fossil of a 150-million year old fish that choked to death on a belemnite rostrum: the hard, internal shell of an extinct, squid-like animal.

Original paper.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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We’re expected to believe that the NY Times is a serious newspaper when they are sending a reporter to talk to dozens of ppl to debunk a claim from a known conspiracy theorist, fascist, and grifter that he’d teleported into a Waffle House?!?